mots - entretiens avec Paul Ricœur et Henri Maldiney appeared, summarizing his career, his monumental mosaic L'Envol de la Liberté on the Mur de la Liberté (Liberty Wall) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges was being completed. Poetry Throughout his career Bazaine kept contact with many poets, some twenty of whom he saluted in Jean Bazaine, couleurs et mots (1997) including Paul Éluard, Abdellatif Laabi, Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, Eugène Guillevic. Three of them stand out as lifelong friends and soulmates, André Frénaud (whose work has been translated by Keith Bosley), Jean Tardieu, and his own son Jean-Baptiste de Seynes who took his name from his mother Catherine de Seynes-Bazaine. Bazaine illustrated Raymond Queneau's monograph André Frénaud for Le Divan Editeur, 1960 (150 ex. with an original lithograph, thirty examples hors series with an added lithograph). Bazaine died at the age of 96 in Clamart at the end of a day's work on a series of collages, a notable example (1995) of which is printed in Jean Bazaine, coleurs et mots (1997) bearing the title L'étape dans la clairière after a cycle of poems by Frénaud (1966). References A Painter's Philosophy -An interview between Jean Bazaine and George Bernier in: The Selective Eye: An anthology of the best from L'ŒIL, the European art magazine. Edited by Georges and Rosamond Bernier. New York Lausanne, Random House 1955 Nello Ponente Peinture Moderne, tendances contemporaines. Paris, Editions d'Art Albert Skira 1960 André Frénaud La Noce Noire (lithography (1946) by Jean Bazaine) in: Pierre Seghers le livre d'or de la poésie française, seconde partie (tome un): de 1940 à 1960 Verviers, Belgique Marabout Université, 1969 Alexander Liberman The Artist in his Studio London, Thames and Hudson 1969 External links Saint Séverin windows Chapelle St Dominique-St Matthieu Paris Adamson: The Art criticism of Jean Bazaine 1934-1944 Obituary Unesco obituary (french) Centre Pompidou, 110 works by Bazaine (enter his name in recherche rapide) Sacré Cœur d'Audincourt (French) Audincourt via Helsinki (super!) L'Envol de la Liberté (French) Couturier/Bazaine in context (images, little German text) Time Magazine (1958) Modern Glass for Medieval Churches Sacré Coeur Audincourt Baptistery windows high-resolution pictures 1904 births 2001 deaths Painters from Paris 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters University of Paris alumni French stained glass artists and manufacturers School of Paris Art Informel and Tachisme painters